Abstract In late antiquity, logic developed into what Ebbesen calls the LAS , Late Ancient Standard. This paper discusses Neoplatonic use of as informed by epistemological and metaphysical concerns. It demonstrates this through an analysis ancient debate about hypothetical categorical manifest in practice syllogizing Platonic dialogues. After introduction Middle Platonist view on syllogistic pr...

Price and quality are positively related in people's minds. Saying a product costs more ought to lead higher expectations of liking. Importantly, this price-quality heuristic is argued affect perceived liking—known as the marketing placebo effect. To investigate robustness effect, we conducted six studies (total N = 2842; with students from an international Dutch university US participants Prol...

In spite of the improvements in inclusive policies and practices, Roma students are still underrepresented higher education (HE) Serbia. The main aim this study is to ascertain contextual personal factors success university students. Study participants were studying at four public universities Serbia who filled a questionnaire on their familyand school-related experience, participated interview...

This Essay does not focus on the feasibility of an European Community (”EC”) civil code, but rather addresses questions of substance relating to the law of obligations, that is, the law of contract and tort, leaving aside the law of property and family law. Nevertheless, I must state that I do not believe in the feasibility of a uniform Civil Code for the European Community. Rather than employi...

Gibrat's law predicts that the standard deviation of the growth rate of a node's degree is constant. On the other hand, the preferential attachment(PA) indicates that such standard deviation decreases with initial degree as a power law of exponent −0.5. While both models have been applied to Internet modeling, this inconsistency requires the verification of their validation. Therefore we empiri...

Under this title I organized, on March 26 and 29, 2010, a workshop that discussed the place of Islamic law in the national codes of states with predominantly Muslim populations in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. What place do their codes assign to Islamic law? As none of the states concerned—with the exception of Turkey—declares itself to be a secular state, they can all claim that the law ...

Law is traditionally analysed as a positive phenomenon, meaning that it is constructed and laid down by the institutions within a given society and that it has an empirical dimension. The concept of positive law, or of rules and doctrines which have an affirmative empirical existence and which are posited by a lawmaking institution, reflects this preoccupation with the substance and reality of ...